Blue Ocean Emotions – 3
As the foundation of your ability to see holistically, emotions are an essential ingredient of any viable notion of intelligence, not a separate notion of intelligence.
Dispossession
You might think it silly to ask, “Who is at home?” with regard to anyone’s personality, but I disagree. When someone asks something of you, where does your answer come from?
Blue Ocean Emotions – 2
Emotional Intelligence requires feeling, not intellect. It’s the manipulation of emotion that’s done using awareness.
Blue Ocean Shoals
The different skills of non-reductive, systems thinking are aspects of a single approach that’s integrated into the single term “resonance.”
The Assembly of Mind
Your mind is a collective but you don’t see it as a collective. You can’t see the parts because the parts are doing the seeing. We are fascinated to look at ourselves because it helps us imagine what we are.
Thinking, Time, and Identity
Many things come naturally to us, but thinking is not one of them. There are many forms of thinking. We are primarily taught only two: linear and emotional.
An Unusual Awareness
I’m feeling the panic, I have a situation, I have a resolution, but I don’t have a conclusion, and I’ve run out of time. Here is what I do in my hypnopompic state: I begin by sitting with it and then I go beyond that.
Into The Road
“You step into the Road, and if you don't keep your feet, there is no knowing where you might be swept off to.”— Bilbo Baggins, from The Lord of the Rings
Walk in the Woods
Love is hugely misunderstood, but closely related to harmony and balance, and grows from those things. I’ve created an audio file to bring to you some of the ideas and associations that came to me during this walk.
Becoming Lucid
"Over the years I’ve read much about lucid dreaming, but I’ve been frustrated that it’s mostly portrayed as an amusement park ride. Surely, there has to be more to it than spectacle and entertainment..."
Interpretation of Dreams
"Reality consists of our assumptions about things we have not experienced. We fill in the blanks by social contract, seeing the same things in a world of which we're mostly unaware..."
Follow The Heart
At some level I knew it but didn’t do it because I did not follow my heart.